PhD Students

Miaomiao XueMiaomiao received her M.Sc.(2017) in chemistry from Soochow University, where she focused on the design, synthesis and application of organic light-emitting materials. In Autumn 2017, she joined the Schroeder Group at Queen Mary University of London as a PhD student. Her current research is sponsored by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and focuses on the development of photo-responsive organic thermoelectric materials.

Zilu LiuZilu is currently a doctoral student in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. She received her B. Sc. (2012) from the Anhui Normal University and M. Sc. (2016) from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her current research focuses on the design and synthesis of novel organo-metallic coordination materials for thermoelectric applications. Zilu is the recipient of a scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC).

Lewis CowenLewis received a MChem in chemistry from the University of Huddersfield where he completed his dissertation on the synthesis of novel sulfonic ester containing heterocycles under the supervision of Dr. Mark Heron. He also spent a year working in the NMR department of the Intertek Pharmaceutical Services analytical laboratory in Manchester.

Lewis joined the Schroeder group at the Materials Research Institute of Queen Mary University of London as a PhD student in September 2016. Current research interests are centred around the development of high-performing pi-conjugated polymers with an emphasis on materials which can be used as the n-type semiconducting component in thermoelectric devices and especially species which employ an intrinsic doping strategy.